Peri-operative Oral Pain Control Following Buccal Graft Urethroplasty
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2023-03-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Patients undergoing buccal urethroplasty will often have significant post-operative oral pain
from the graft site. Various graft harvest techniques and methods for post-harvest hemostasis
including graft site closure have been explored. Despite the frequency of this clinical
scenario there is no established best practice for peri-operative pain management in this
patient population. In addition to traditional post operative pain control, groups have
sought various peri-operative anesthetic regimens to improve post operative pain. This has
led recently to the description of various regional blocks including buccal and periorbital
blocks for peri-operative local anesthetic. No study has looked at superiority of regional
pain management in this patient population. This study will aim to assess three established
anesthetic protocols for oral pain control in a blinded, randomized controlled trial.
Hypothesis: Patients who have buccal block will have lower post op pain without any increase
adverse oral outcomes.